Tinnitus

[mainst09]

Hey guys,

I know this thread exists but i can't find it so i'm making a new one,sorry.

So i guess i have tinnitus a little sound when i'm going to sleep everyday,but nothing special really i can sleep normally,but i'm scared that this get's worst since i produce music. I don't listen to music louder and i rarely go to clubs.

So i went to the doctor,and she told me to take this medication,i don't know how it's called,i'm sure this will solve nothing but the question i want to ask his:

Guys from here that have tinnitus,do you guys still do the same shit you did before,producing all the time,DJ'ing etc. you guys got worst? because i'm just 18 and i'm scared that i can't produce music anymore,you know?!

[oddmyth]

Do you have ringing when you go to bed after not listening to music for an extended period of time?

If you are just listening at home and go to bed with a bit of ringing, that's somewhat normal. But like above if you haven't listened to anything in a while and you are still getting it then that could be a sign.

Usually when I get some ringing I just take it easy for a week or so, nothing loud, no headphones.

[mainst09]

Do you have ringing when you go to bed after not listening to music for an extended period of time?

I really can't tell you because i listen to music everyday,i can't stand not listening music for one day so i don't know,but there are days when i listen to just 3,4 tracks and the rest of the days i see tv series on my pc and i still have it

[AxeD]

What medication did you get? There's no medication for tinnitus.

[mainst09]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betahistine

[tdmusic]

Here you are mate: http://www.subsekt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2233

[Mslwte]

I read somewhere recently that tinnitus can now be treated (may even have been on subsekt) personally I don't use my headphones anymore just have my monitors at low volume if it is late at night. I found I was turning the volume up to high, especially messing about with distortion was a bad idea.

I do get a bit of ringing sometimes but I think it is a natural thing as its only for a few minutes at a time.

[Program]

I got it from gigs & loud headphones. I had a period in which my ears were so irritated I just had to take a long break & in the end avoid clubs altogether. Same as you, I noticed it when trying to fall asleep & then obsessed about it for a while - it's REALLY frustrating. The damage was done so even after a few years when someone drops a fork or I hear clanky sharp metal sounds my right ear hurts like hell.

It did get better tho, after I quit loud monitoring situations & ditched the headphones. So now when & if I make music it's at very low levels. The occasional loud 10sec ringing is gone & the permanent one did reduce to a very low level. Don't sacrifice your hearing - you can enjoy music at lower levels too. Earplugs are a great help also, but I never could dj with them or enjoy music in a club properly. Just take proper care of your hearing, all this loud music is not worth the horrors of tinnitus

[mainst09]

Yeah. i want to keep djing and producing but don't want to get this worse,i'm thinking in buying some professional earplugs for gigs and for partying.

[Mattias]

For someone that young it can settle after a while unless it's real bad permanent damage (not very loud tinnitus is a good sign normally).

[Planar]

Do you have ringing when you go to bed after not listening to music for an extended period of time?

I really can't tell you because i listen to music everyday,i can't stand not listening music for one day so i don't know,but there are days when i listen to just 3,4 tracks and the rest of the days i see tv series on my pc and i still have it

For the sake of your hearing I think you should try what oddmyth is alluding to- have at least a few days where you minimise any impact on your ears to let them recover. No loud music, no loud anything. At least this will let you know whether its a temporary problem (which we've probably all had at one time or another) that you can fix with simple changes to your listening volumes, or if the problem is a little more serious.

[saminedia]

Spend some time in nature

[mainst09]

For someone that young it can settle after a while unless it's real bad permanent damage (not very loud tinnitus is a good sign normally).

yes it's not loud,far from that.

[mainst09]

Do you have ringing when you go to bed after not listening to music for an extended period of time?

I really can't tell you because i listen to music everyday,i can't stand not listening music for one day so i don't know,but there are days when i listen to just 3,4 tracks and the rest of the days i see tv series on my pc and i still have it

For the sake of your hearing I think you should try what oddmyth is alluding to- have at least a few days where you minimise any impact on your ears to let them recover. No loud music, no loud anything. At least this will let you know whether its a temporary problem (which we've probably all had at one time or another) that you can fix with simple changes to your listening volumes, or if the problem is a little more serious.

Ok, i shall do that this week,let's see what happens!

[arc]

I have nothing constructive to add other than I hope I never get this. Losing my hearing or even damaging it would be devastating.

On a related health note, my vision has been acting weird - I keep seeing these strange flashes on my peripheral vision. According to my eye doctor, I'm at a very high risk for "retinal detachment", which would cause blindness.

Don't take your health for granted...

[Kryo]

I wouldn't get stressed, sometimes its due to listening music for some hours (your ear "gets tired"), and not all the cases of hearing "things" without having listened music before are due to ear damage.
Tinnitus is just a side effect of ear damage, but also of other causes (even some medications cause tinnitus). In my case, after going to doc for a nose problem, I also asked him to check my ears because I had tinnitus on the right one: if I stay a lot of hours with music/producing it gets higher, but in bed its quite "low". Well, he told me that I have "tubaritis", and that was causing my tinnitus. As far as I know, it's like an inflammation of a conduct that connects ears & nose, also causing more mucous on it so it causes a differential of pressure. That means loosing audition (while having that shit, but not permanent) and other stuff like tinnitus.

So I'd recommend you to go doc, because not always its such a bad thing or a permanent damage on your ear

[Hades]

I'd take it damn serious. Not that I'm saying you should be panicking like hell, but you might want to consider it a good warning.
You only have one pair of ears, and the problem with tinnitus is, that even if you get completely deaf, you're still gonna hear that "tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut" for the rest of your life.
Plus my doctor told me it can come out of the blue as well, not right after you listened to music, but just in the middle of the day, even if you haven't been listening to anything all day. Although obviously in most cases, it will come directly after you've been overdoing your ears.

A few years ago, an ear specialist found out I had lost about 20% of my hearing in my right ear, and they still don't know what caused it. They made me go under a scanner and everything because they feared for a moment I had some kind of brain tumor, since it ain't very normal to have hearing loss at only one ear.
They never found a damn thing, and it's bloody irritating for producing, cause you always have the impression there's not enough coming out of your right monitor.
I suspect it's because I always call with my cellphone on the right ear, and damn if that doesn't heat up my ear from radiation, but that's all just speculation.

Anyway, the ear specialist gave me some medication that I took for a while, and it got slightly better, but still nothing shocking, I maybe gained back 5% of the 20% I lost.
I suspect it was the same stuff you were given. It's supposed to stimulate the oxygen flow towards and inside your brain to move better, but she said upfront that there's no way of telling if it really helps.
Expensive stuff too, costed like 20 euro's a box, if I remember correctly.
I can look it up to check if it was that, I still have the box somewhere at home, if you really want to know.

One of the things I once heard about headphones is this, especially with MP3-players : the 60/60 rule. Never longer than 60 minutes, and never with a higher volume than 60%.
I find that last one especially hard to do, cause I listen to a lot of podcasts, and some are just quieter than others.
Another thing you might want to consider is getting noise cancellation headphones. Many people crank up the volume to close out the unwanted sounds from the outside world (I know I do), but they're risky as well since you stop hearing everything you might want to be hearing, like sounds in traffic.
I almost got killed listening to one of oddmyth's sets on my sennheiser HD25's, so I think I'll pass on the noise cancelling for the time being...

In any case : remember that your hearing can very easily get damaged, and very quickly too.
For example, if you stand next to one of those street workers with a pneumtic drill for longer than 5 minutes without hearing protection, your hearing is already irrepairably damaged.
So be careful, whatever you do.
I'm not gonna go clubbing again if I don't get some ear plugs first.

[Senko]

Getting my hearing test done in a matter of days. Pretty sure I have Tinnitus. Can't sleep because of it. Always sounds like my right monitor isn't putting out as much. Sucks... I'm only 19.

[sds]

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[Lag]

Getting my hearing test done in a matter of days. Pretty sure I have Tinnitus. Can't sleep because of it. Always sounds like my right monitor isn't putting out as much. Sucks... I'm only 19.

Welcome to the club. I don't have tinnitus but fucked up my right ear badly at one point (got ear plugs right after that and never go to the club without them nowadays) plus I have a dead pixel in my right eye. Those are two good reminders to take care of myself.